There are only three things a cat needs for a fine life
- good food a comfortable bed & universal praise & love. Luckily
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Elena Weaver in her skimpy dresses & bright jewellery exuded intelligence & sexuality. A student at St Stephen's College Cambridge she lived a life of casual but intense physical & emotional relationships with scores to settle & targets to achieve. Until someone lying in wait on the bank of the River Cam where Elena went running every morning bludgeoned the young woman to death. Called into the rarefied world of academia Inspector Thomas Lynley & his partner Barbara Havers find a tangled skein of love obsession & desire
- a maelstrom of emotion that has claimed Elena Weaver's life.
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Commander Graham Martineau was awarded the Victoria Cross for pressing home an attack against impossible odds. Few survived & crimson ribbon remains a haunting symbol of the sacrifice of ship & men. Now as captain of the crack Tribal Class destroyer H.M.S. Hakka Martineau must once again call from ordinary seamen the ultimate in courage & prepare to defend to the death vital convoys to Russia. There is no hiding place in these bitter Arctic seas where a pitiless enemy awaits a fatal rendezvous. All are heroes & no man & no ship is immortal. ...

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan a young American volunteer has been sent to handle the dyamiting. There in the mountains he finds the dangers & the intense comradeship of war. & there he discovers Maria a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels. Like many of his novels adapted into a major Hollywood film For Whom the bell Tolls is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century by one of the greatest American writers. ...

Martin Bell OBE has been many things
- an icon of BBC war reporting Britains first independent MP for 50 years a UNICEF ambassador
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I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories One morning in February 1952 a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk & set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born & would go on to become one of the most successful enduring & lucrative creations in literature. But Bonds world of glamour & romance gadgets & cocktails espionage & villainy wasnt entirely drawn from imagination: Flemings background & his experiences as an intelligence officer during the Second World War were all formative parts in the creation of the worlds most famous spy. Packed with astonishing detail & written in Macintyres inimitable style For Your Eyes Only is the most enlightening enlivening book on the creator of the spy who not only lived twice but proved to be immortal. ...

' Private armies private wars. How much energy they siphoned off from the common cause how much fire they directed away from the common enemy!' From A View to A Kill"; " For Your Eyes Only"; " Quantum of Solace"; " Risico"; The Hildebrand Rarity Five stories. Five missions. Five glimpses into the mind of a spy. From Jamaican estates to brooding French forests Bond is tested to his limits by the world's most dangerous men & the dark secrets they keep." ...

At any time in any place food is there for the taking
- if only we knew how & where to look. Miles Irving makes his living out
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In The Forager's Kitchen expert forager & cook Fiona Bird shares the knowledge she has gained from years of gathering food from the l&. Whether you live in a large city in open countryside or by the coast if you open your eyes & follow Fiona's advice you will find more ingredients growing in the wild than you could imagine. & once you have brought your bounty home there are more than 100 recipes for you to try. If you love baking try the carrot & clover cake wild hazelnut shortbread or sea lettuce madeleines. Make the most of a hedgerow glut by making honeysuckle jelly or quince & wild thyme sorbet. Try a food-for-free main course of chanterelle puffs or wild mussels steamed with dandelions or a quick snack of garlic mustard chickweed & tomato bruschetta. Or indulge your tastebuds with wild berry & herb marshmallows or a wild cherry panna cotta. The Forager's Kitchen will change the way you cook
- rather than shopping in the aisles of your grocery store head off to the great outdoors & you will be amazed by the sheer quantity of food that available for free.
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This is a practical guide to finding & preparing food from hedgerows parks fields woods rivers & seashore. Aimed at the beginner it also has a wealth of tips for the enthusiast & unlike other books on wild food covers foraging in the urban environment as well as the countryside. The book shows the reader Where How & When to find the best edible berries leaves flowers mushrooms seaweed shellfish & snails with clear & full instructions on what is safe to eat. Foraging" covers the 100 wild foods that are good to eat fun to find easy to identify
- & will make a healthy difference to your diet & your bank balance. The book is organised by environment so when taking a walk gardening or having a day out you know how to gather a hedgerow harvest a field feast a seaside salad. Each entry features one species & fully explains its looks exactly where in the habitat it will be found when it is ripe to eat its alternative names its history how to harvest it its culinary uses. There are full instructions too on preparation of each plant/fungi/animal along with recipes for its use. This title

Includes:: recipes such as: comfrey fritters hazelnut pate nettle beer sorrel soup dandelion coffee blackberry jam..."


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